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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1914
Page
3
Mobile Acting Mayor Pillans received a letter from Tampa Board of Trade president F C Boyer thanking him for copies of Mobile city commission reports and congratulating Gulf City. Boyer says Tampa plans to adopt a commission form of government and has a bill ready for the upcoming legislative session.
Mobile interest grows over Isadore Shapiro a Birmingham born lawyer announced as a Jefferson County candidate for the legislature. Shapiro impressed Mobile attendees with an eloquent Bnai Brith address and advocates public ownership of politics while pledging to champion the people’s rights.
Mothers are often unconsciously careless about their children's diet urging sameness of foods. Constipation leads to colds headaches sleeplessness and more. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is recommended as a gentle remedy. sold by druggists. free sample offered by mail from Monticello Illinois.
The coroner began inquiry into the Missouri Athletic Club fire with thirty or more deaths. Dancer Adelaide Mason testified about discovering the blaze in the lobby at 2 am Monday. Fourteen of twenty identified bodies include Kinser, Williams, Bier, Kessler, Reilley, Rickey, Thuma, Ruff, Wright, Shyne, Borders, Albright, Goener, and others from St Louis, East St Louis, Chicago, and New York.
In Birmingham Alabama on March 13 a city court jury found for the defendant in the case Edna Bailey pro ams vs The Birmingham News Publishing Company. The suit sought twenty five thousand dollars accusing libel over a habeas corpus report involving an 18 year old girl. Trial began yesterday and ended this morning with the jury out fifty five minutes.
H. M. Hood of the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad attends the National Association of Accountants meeting in New York and will travel to Chicago on business. C. A. Pigford of Mobile division Mobile and Ohio Railroad inspects the Dawes extension in Mobile. Raoul J. Ruz of Seeberg Steamship lines stays in New Orleans on business. J. W. Hunter of the Southern Railway tours the region. H. H. Bolton leaves for northern cities to visit immigration offices for about ten days.
Washington reports that all 43 lives lost when the Old Dominion steamer Monroe was rammed by the Nantucket off Virginia have been swept from the wreck by a strong submarine current. Divers with heavy lead couldn't stand in the flow. lifeboat No. 1 was cut loose with two women aboard. The cargo may be recovered.
The Senate opened at noon with James Brown Scott of the Carnegie peace endowment testifying before the lobby committee. In the House, debate on the agricultural appropriation bill continued as committees finished labor on the La Follette seamen's bill and considered Canadian boundary fisheries enforcement. Falcon Joslyn of a Fairbanks railroad spoke to the territories committee accusing the Alaska railroad tax law of being confiscatory.
Law and Equity Court and Circuit Court report Friday business including Bouchard v Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Burks National Detective Agency v Civic League. Demurrers to multiple counts ruled with appeals bonds fixed and ruling set aside motions denied as the court prepares to adjourn. Spring opera seat sale noted.
Ambassador Walter Hines Page says the senate misread his remarks on the Monroe doctrine after officials asked for an explanation. He insists his talk warned against European territorial gains and noted Britain would benefit most from the canal, though his comments were greatly condensed.
Mrs Winnie Lavenia Hamilton 67 died at her Spring Hill home. Funeral Friday at 10 am with Father McLaughlin at Spring Hill College. Interment Union Church Cemetery. William J Graham of Mobile died Thursday at 5 pm Moss Point after two months illness. He worked for Mobile Ship Chandlery Company. Survived by wife former Hattie Blake, child, mother, brothers Edward C and Charles, four sisters Lydia Graham J E Carter Will Goff and Grierson, plus other relatives. Horace E Upton Sr local manager of
Mrs. David Moor of Saginaw praises Dr. King's New Discovery for a husband with a fifteen year cough and another with an eight year cough. The ad claims it stops hacking coughs relieves la grippe and all throat and lung ailments. Price 60 cents and 1 dollar with money back guarantee from H. E. Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia.
Register's Office notes a decree from February 12 1914 directs a public outcry sale on March 30 1914 at 12 noon in front of Mobile County Courthouse to satisfy costs for street improvements. Property at 157 North Claiborne Street described by coordinates along Claiborne and Davis Avenues, Mobile Alabama.
Horace D B Upton, 68, prominent New Orleans attorney, died after three months of paralysis. He had practiced law here for fifty years. Funeral held Monday at Bayou Goula. Survived by widow, three sons Horace E Upton of Mobile, John R Upton, Dr George H Upton, and three daughters Marion C, Emily, and Eleanor.
In a law and equity proceeding filed Thursday afternoon George W. Buckley sues Samuel B. Pouncey for 2200 on notes secured by a mortgage. Buckley alleges the funds were advanced as interest for a son of the defendant in the Martin Furniture Company.
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